Bicycle luggage-carrier



' (No Model.)

' G. J. BROWN.

BICYCLE LUGGAGE CARRIER.

o. 601,701. Patented Apr. 5,1898.

CHARLES J. BROWN, OF LONG ISLAND CITY, NEW YORK.

BICYCLE LUGGAGE-CARRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 601,701, dated April 5, 1898.

Application filed January 14, 1897. Serial No. 619,274. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES J BROWN, of

Hunters Point avenue, Long Island City, in the county of Queens and State of New York, have invented a new'and useful device to be used in connection with bicycles and known as a Baggage-Carrier, of which the following is a specification.

Said device can be affixed and removed at will and is to be attached to the front fork or bar of the bicycle below the handle-bars or to any other bar or tube on said bicycle.

My-invention relates to bicycle luggagecarriers in general, and more particularly to that class adapted for removable attachment to the head or other portion of the frame of the machine, and has for its object to provide a device of this class which is cheap and simple of construction and easy of operation.

In the drawings forming a portion of this specification, and in which like symbols of reference indicate similar parts in both views, Figure 1 is a vertical elevation of my improved device, its appearance when opened for application to the bicycle-frame being indicated by dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a side view of my device.

Referring now to the drawings,in constructing a luggage-carrier in accordance with my invention I provide a bar 5, having midway of its ends an arch 6,which latter is provided with a yieldable lining 7, for a purpose presently to be explained. V

Adjacent each end of the bar 5 and in the direction of the extension-arch 6 is formed an opening or slot 10, adapted to receive straps 12, provided with buckles 8, whereby said straps may be arranged to hold the luggage.

At one side of the plate 5, adjacent the arch 6, are ears 9, intermediate of which and passing through a slot 15 in the bar 5 is arranged a threaded bolt 16. The bolt 16 is pivotally connected with the ears 9 through the medium of a pin 17, passed through perforations in the ears. Adjacent the opposite end of the arch 6 and on the opposite side of the plate 5 from the ears 9 is formed a perforated ear 18, inclosing which are the cars 19 of a second arched piece 20, having also a yielding lining 21.

The piece 20 is pivotally secured upon the plate 5 through the medium of a pin 22, passed through alining perforations in the ears 18 and 19. The opposite end of the piece be swung into place therein and is held when in place through the medium of a clamping thumb-nut 13,Which when screwed down upon the bolt draws the arch 20 in the direction of the arch 6 with a clamping action.

In practicethe arch 20 is raised to the position shown in the dotted lines in Fig. 1 to receive between it and the arch 6 the head or other portion of the frame of a bicycle,with the yieldable liningin engagement therewith, after which it is clamped upon the plate 5, as above indicated. The straps 12 may be then passed around any desired object and secured 111131306 through the medium of the buckles 8 in the usual manner.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is ,7

1. A luggage-carrier comprising a bar having an arch intermediate its ends, slots in the bar adjacent its ends, straps passed through said slots, a slot in the bar adjacent one end I of the arch, an car at each side of the slot, a bolt passed through the last-named slot and pivoted to the ears, an ear on the bar adjacent the opposite end of the arch and a second arch pivotally connected at one end with the last-named ear, and having a slotted extension at its opposite end adapted to receive in its slot the said bolt, and a clamping-nut upon the bolt adapted to draw the arches toward each other.

2. In a luggage-carrier, the combination with a bar having an arch intermediate its ends and slots in the bar adjacent its ends, of straps passed through said slots, a slot in the bar adjacent one end of the arch, an ear at each side of the slot at the base of the arch, a bolt passed through the last-named slot, a pivot passed through said bolt and engaging the said ears, an ear on the opposite side of the bar from the first-named ear and adjacent the opposite end of the arch, a second arch pivotally connected at one end with the lastnamed ear, and having a slotted extension at its opposite end adapted to receive the said bolt, a clamping-nut upon the bolt adapted Ioo to draw the arches toward each otherand yieldable linings for the arches.

CHARLES J. BROWN.

Witnesses:

J os. D. BROWN,- JAS. H. OAssIDY. 

